{"id":694,"date":"2005-01-15T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/01\/15\/on-blogging\/"},"modified":"2005-01-15T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T23:01:12","slug":"on-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/694","title":{"rendered":"On blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s a good day to initiate this log. Actually, I have no idea what a &#8220;blog&#8221; is meant to accomplish, or whether this online journal will meet the definition of that term. I supposed a true blog requires the kind of obsessive drive that keeps the generator of posts relentlessly coming back to the keyboard, so visitors can rely on a daily stream of new entries, thoughts, and observations.\n<\/p>\n<p>But it occurs to me that if one is a creative person, and one is blogging, then one is not doing something else, since one is blogging, and therefore not engaged in a non-blogging priority, if you follow me&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>I think that true blogging would necessitate a careful process of finding the best way to balance one&#8217;s creative imperatives, keen powers of compartmentalization, and a certain level of mastery over the daily resource of limited time. But what do I know about &#8220;true blogging?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just important for me to recognize that if I&#8217;m blogging, I&#8217;m not designing, and if I&#8217;m blogging, I&#8217;m not drawing, or painting, or engraving wood, and if I&#8217;m blogging, I&#8217;m not running, cycling, or swimming, and if I&#8217;m blogging, I&#8217;m not working on my house, and if I&#8217;m blogging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s a good day to initiate this log. Actually, I have no idea what a &#8220;blog&#8221; is meant to accomplish, or whether this online journal will meet the definition of that term. I supposed a true blog requires the kind of obsessive drive that keeps the generator of posts relentlessly coming back to the keyboard, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,26,6,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}